An excellent episode of CRAIG AND FRIENDS @craigandfriends.bsky.social is out now — Craig talks about 52 PICK-UP with Erik Clapp. And on part 3 there will be an interview with the great great great JOHN GLOVER! #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky

52 Pick-Up Movie Club (With Erik Clapp) Part 1 of 3 (Patreon Advance Edition) | Craig & Friends!

Cinema Force's Erik Clapp joins me to talk 52 Pick-Up - the harsh, sleazy and masterful thriller from director John Frankenheimer, starring

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guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and can’t land either his rockets or his jokes.

Looking at the reviews of DISCLOSURE DAY and everybody just seems to be phoning it in. Or maybe it's just that at this point there's nothing new or crackling to say about the Spielberg enterprise: the rapt techno-religious awe is bleached gray.

Molly Crabapple is great. She gets sneered at and belittled by the same blowhards who still go on about AOC being a bartender instead of clerking with Judge Kavanaugh, whatever.

Remarkable and rather pathetic how the online right is pinning its hopes, dreams, and hunger for vindication on the rising star of the West, Spencer Pratt, a total doofus. Meghan Daum is clinging to his candidacy as if he were the last lifeboat.

Fantastique entretien avec Molly Crabapple, qui a exhumé l'histoire juive de l'antisionisme en écrivant une histoire du Bund (l’Union générale des travailleurs juifs de Lituanie, de Pologne et de Russie, fondée en 1897) - et qui a appris le yiddish pour cela. www.democracynow.org/2026/5/14/th...

“Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism

We speak with the acclaimed artist and author Molly Crabapple about her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Although largely forgotten today, the Jewish Labor Bu...

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Evil comes in many guises-- even monsters can wear pearls. Daniella Weiss, founder of Nachala: "The 2 million or whatever number of Arabs, Gazans, who live here will not live in Gaza. It can take a week, it can take maybe a few months. They will not live here." (link below)

Fresh Hell was ahead of the curve this week. Two days after I advocated going after Andrew for sex offenses, police announced they are expanding their investigation to include sexual misconduct. Bring it on! Column here: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

Can the Andrew File Get Any Worse?

It’s thanks to Andrew Lownie’s paperback update of Entitled, his Prince Andrew defenestration, that we now know that Sarah Ferguson—aside from her toxic association with Jeffrey Epstein—reportedly had...

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The police in Britain said on Friday that they were continuing their investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, and said they were assessing reports that a woman had been taken to an address in Windsor in 2010 for sexual purposes.

One of the greatest things you’ll read on Europe and this geo-political moment! Superb piece of work by Ivan Krastev!

Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise

The dawn of a strange new European consensus.

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I was so enjoying MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES (Apple TV) but the most recent episode plunged off the pier into bonehead melodrama. As much as one identifies with the underdog characters, once they start crushing someone's hand or breaking someone's jaw, such stupid self-sabotage casts away sympathy.

Yes, they have accomplished their mission. Now we have a job ahead.

The delight the cast members of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 are taking in each other is really making me ILL.

Interesting article about benefits from taking aspirin.

Aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer - and we're starting to understand why

The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.

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Classic Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds was BOTD in 1932 and died at 84 of grief one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher in 2016. I wrote about Reynold's overlooked acting chops here: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc... @talkhouse.bsky.social

More Beaudine! We chatted with Author James L Neibaur about his book Directed By William Beaudine: An Overview. This interview gives more context to the big tribute happening in April at the @newbeverly.bsky.social & @videoarchivesclub. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

4,290 MINUTES of William Beaudine. 71.5 hours worth of movie viewing from just one director. That's what we're getting from Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theater Cinema Club AND @newbeverly.bsky.social this month-- 62 titles spanning from 1923 to 1958! #letterboxd #moviesky #filmsky #tcm

Video Archives Cinema Club, April 2026

Programming for Quentin Tarantino’s Video Archives Cinema Club at Vista Theater in Hollywood, April 2026. *This list also includes titles shown in April 2026 at the New Beverly Cinema as part of its t...

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New Episode! QT returns to talk about a director he loves: William Beaudine. He highlights some of his favorites as well as the tribute he’s doing at @newbeverly.bsky.social & Video Archives Cinema Club in April: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

This April we present a retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, including silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rarely-seen treasures! Plus, swashbuckling classics, The Whole Bloody Affair, midnights, matinees & more!

Some new @letterboxd.social faves for the month long tribute to director William Beaudine at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 6mo ago

Breaking: In a landmark decision, a jury found YouTube and Meta negligent for operating products that harmed kids and teens on.wsj.com/48aHwWn

Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?) The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N #booksky #historysky #books

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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

When Matt Taibbi lost his podcast partner & soul bro Walter Kirn in a surly divorce, a vacant spot opened. Diving deep into the grifter dumpster, he has dredged up Michael Tracey to make podcast magic. Yes, the grubby beardo who once claimed a 78 year old Maxine Waters went Cobra Kai on him.

Thank God for the rigor of NYT and others who combed through footage of the girls’ school bombing in Iran. After Karoline Leavitt, who looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day, insisted it was “propaganda” the US was responsible, sloggers revealed more. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

Trump's Wild War Game

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.

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Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Breaking: U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

Trump's Wild War Game

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.

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I'm trying to figure out which documentary I'm less interested in seeing, the one about Seymour Hersh that came out on Netflix or the upcoming one about Lorne Michaels that will debut only in theaters for a target audience of ghosts and dust bunnies.

Wealth inequality in this state is working exactly how it was designed to—for those at the very top. The question isn't whether our leaders are concerned. The question is whether they have the lived experience to understand the urgency needed.

Katie Porter@katieporterca.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In 2016, Donald Trump’s pitch was "I'm so rich, you can trust me to drain the swamp.” We’ve seen how that turned out.

I love that Barbra Streisand’s torrid love song for EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) was just played during the YSL winter 26 show in Paris. @barbrastreisand.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #barbrastreisand #ysl

We've had enough of leaders who are bought and paid for. It's time for a leader you know only works for you.

“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...